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    Angela Merkel: short biography - from a youth in the GDR to chancellorship in united Germany
    Angela Merkel: short biography - from a youth in the GDR to chancellorship in united Germany
    Angela Merkel: short biography - from a youth in the GDR to chancellorship in united Germany
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    Angela Merkel: short biography - from a youth in the GDR to chancellorship in united Germany

    By Dirk Müller

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    Anyone wishing to find information about Angela Merkel can do so through current daily sources, on the Internet or read the big biographies by Langguth and others. This book aims to close the gap between those bite-sized sources of information and the long biographies. The first are short and disjointed. The latter are time-consuming and, as well, partly written from a one-sided (positive or negative) perspective. As the sub-title suggests, this short biography concentrates on the early period, partly shrouded in mystery, up to arrival in Germany’s chancellery.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIdeenbrücke Verlag
    Release dateApr 14, 2015
    ISBN9783945909386
    Angela Merkel: short biography - from a youth in the GDR to chancellorship in united Germany
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    Dirk Müller

    Dirk Müller berichtete als Korrespondent für renommierte überregionale Medien aus der Bundespolitik. Mehrere Buchpublikationen zu zeitgeschichtlichen und historischen Themen, darunter Biographien über Bismarck und Angela Merkel sowie den Philosophie-Fachbestseller »Nützliche Irrtümer«.

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      Angela Merkel - Dirk Müller

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      Angela Merkel – the short biography of a long rise to power                                               

      Dirk Müller                                                               

      Translated by Peter Wilton

      Cover using photos by Bernd Settnik (l., 1990) and Glyn Lowe Photoworks (2013)

      ISBN 978-3-945909-38-6            

      Foreword

      When Angela Dorothea Kasner was born on 17. July 1954 in Hamburg, no one could guess that the new-born child would one day become the most powerful woman in the world. That in itself would not really be remarkable; since we have no longer been ruled by dynasties, it is quite normal. But even when, decades later, Angela Merkel, née Kasner, assumed the chairmanship of the most powerful party of the most powerful country in the EU, only few suspected that this woman would play such a dominant part in international politics.

      Maybe that is just why she managed it.

      About this book

      Anyone wishing to find information about Angela Merkel can do so through current daily sources, on the Internet or read the big biographies by Langguth and others. This book aims to close the gap between those bite-sized sources of information and the long biographies. The first are short and disjointed. The latter are time-consuming and, as well, partly written from a one-sided (positive or negative) perspective. As the sub-title suggests, this short biography concentrates on the early period, partly shrouded in mystery, up to arrival in Germany’s chancellery. The years of government will be dealt with later in a second volume.                       

      From the Elbe metropolis to the Brandenburg province – childhood and schooldays

      What do Angela Merkel, Gudrun Ensslin and Friedrich Nietzsche have in common? – Not much – except that they are all the children of evangelical pastors.

      It may appear far-fetched but these pastors’ children are all characterised in their own way by their background – the philosopher by radical ideological resistance against Christianity, the terrorist by the just as radical negation of the commandment of the avoidance of violence while the outrage over supposed or actual injustice does appear to have a (twisted and concealed) Christian background. And Merkel? Well, pastors in the East Germany lived – even if they had sympathies with Socialism – in constant latent contradiction to the dominating,

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